Bush Mountains
| Bush Mountains | ||
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| location | Ross Dependency , Antarctica | |
| part of | Queen Maud Mountains in the Transantarctic Mountains | |
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| Coordinates | 84 ° 57 ′ S , 179 ° 30 ′ E | |
The Bush Mountains are a series of rugged ridges in the Ross Dependency of Antarctica . In the Transantarctic Mountains these rise at the head ends of the Ramsey and Kosco glaciers and extend from Mount Weir in the west to the Anderson Heights above the Shackleton glacier in the east.
The mountains were photographed from a distance on several flights in November 1929 on the Byrd Antarctic Expedition (1928–1930) to the Queen Maud Mountains . Further information provided aerial photographs taken during the United States Antarctic Service Expedition (1939-1941), as well as those of Operation Highjump (1946-1947) and the Deep Freeze operations between 1956 and 1963. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named the mountains Proposed by the US polar explorer Richard Evelyn Byrd in 1947 after James I. Bush (1885–1961), US financial investor and sponsor of the Byrd Antarctic Expedition.
Web links
- Bush Mountains in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Bush Mountains on geographic.org (English)
West part in the very southeast of the map
Eastern part in the southwest quarter of the map
